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It all started with my grandson’s 6th birthday party. My wife, who takes such things very seriously, spent at least two days running around finding party favors, candy, decorations and other assorted junk. By Saturday morning, you would swear we were in the home party business.

A man walked out of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office recently with his marijuana and a broken glass marijuana pipe that had been seized months earlier, ending a months-long process that has one attorney claiming that the district attorney’s office harassed his client.

“I think there’s been a great amount of patient harassment, which is what I consider to have happened to Mr. Marquez,” said Brian Vicente, a lawyer who represented Anthony Marquez in a marijuana case.

Fewer than 40 percent of Jefferson County voters participated in the Nov. 6 mail elections, according to Jeffco Clerk and Recorder Pam Anderson.

“We had a pretty low turnout this year — it was about 38 percent,” Anderson said. “I think the thinking behind low turnout is that there were no statewide issues driving out the vote this year, which is unusual — not to have a statewide issue.”

State Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, D-Coal Creek Canyon, announced Tuesday that she is resigning to focus full-time on her campaign to replace Congressman Mark Udall, who is running for the U.S. Senate.

A sense of community comes not simply through how neighbors react to tragedy, but also in the small gestures each resident shows another.

The Woodlane neighborhood and West Gold Meadows, tucked away just north of West Bowles Avenue and east of South Alkire Street, is one in which residents respond — in big ways and small — to show support.

“It’s just really close-knit,” said Dyanne Pritchett, a 17-year resident of Woodlane.

The Wiggins and Gillman families have had intersecting lives in the Columbine community.

In the 2006 high school baseball championship, Nick Wiggins’ two-run single tied the game for Columbine High School. C.J. Gillman helped win it in extra innings on a squeeze play in the bottom of the ninth.

Now Nick and C.J. each have a younger sibling who has recently spent significant time in the hospital.

And both families are grateful for the support they have received from the community.

It’s getting tougher and tougher to write this column. Not because I have cancer, but because I simply don’t get around much anymore. I seldom stop by the newspaper, so I have little idea of what’s going on ee you know, the background stuff. Oh, I still read the paper, but nothing beats hanging around the newsroom, or talking with friends. That’s where the really good ideas come from.

Chatfield Senior High School was under an hour-long lockdown Nov. 8 following an incident in which two men apparently brandished what turned out to be an Airsoft pellet gun.

The incident happened at 11:20 a.m., according to Jacki Kelley, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. The suspects, a registered student at Chatfield Senior High, and a young adult who was not a student, were taken into custody at Mount View Detention Center under charges of felony menacing, Kelley said.

It’s getting tougher and tougher to write this column. Not because I have cancer, but because I simply don’t get around much anymore. I seldom stop by the newspaper, so I have little idea of what’s going on ee you know, the background stuff. Oh, I still read the paper, but nothing beats hanging around the newsroom, or talking with friends. That’s where the really good ideas come from.